About
Indi Foerster is a multimedia artist whose work navigates themes of catharsis, nature, disorientation, and grief. Through painting, Foerster explores memory not only as a relived experience, but as a universal and natural landscape where trauma, identity, and perception interact. By confronting the fragility of recollection, Foerster draws upon the ambiguity of existence, creating works that reflect their personal reckoning with reconfiguring the self. Foerster currently resides in Portland Oregon, though their nomadic life resists fixed boundaries of what it means to have a home.
Statement
My work embodies catharsis in its simplest form, exploring the delicate process of memory and its role in shaping identity. My paintings explore themes of nature, deterioration, and loss of agency, asking what it means to face unrest and empowerment in the face of constant change and brutalization. It pursues not only acts of remembering, but the quiet spaces between memory and forgetting, where identity is formed, dissolved, and reimagined. Through this retracing, I hope not to find a solution, but a release that speaks to the shared human condition. It is through this confrontation of one’s own lived experience, with all its contradictions and nuances, that art can reveal new dimensions of understanding. My practice is an invitation to engage with this reflection and examine the self through a dissection of the mind and a re-connection with the Earth.
Exhibitions
2025 Radiant Horizons, Sfumato Gallery, New York
2025 Dimensions, Building 5, Portland, OR
2025 Almost Something, Gallery 157 PNCA, Portland, OR
2024 Bioetic: Explorations of the Static Flux, Gallery 157 PNCA, Portland, OR